illegal immigration

[Gil Dobie]

OK. Then we'll just have Guatemalans, Salvadorans, etc. coming across our southern border.... a border that will be much more difficult to patrol.

They are already here, so what's the big deal. Local thrift store clerk I know came from El Salvador with his friends and family.

[Aho Old Guy]

illegal ... legal -- need to do sumthin'

Unfilled jobs are rising nearly as fast as employment each month over the last 3+ years. Last JOLTS was 6 million unfilled jobs. Not a good sign with 10,000 Boomers turning 65 each day.

[CAA Flagship]

illegal ... legal -- need to do sumthin'

Unfilled jobs are rising nearly as fast as employment each month over the last 3+ years. Last JOLTS was 6 million unfilled jobs. Not a good sign with 10,000 Boomers turning 65 each day.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/07 ... ments.html

Food stamp rolls plummet in states that restore work requirements

Alabama began 2017 by requiring able-bodied adults without children in 13 counties to either find a job or participate in work training as a condition for continuing to receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.

According to AL.com, the number of those recipients declined from 5,538 to 831 between Jan. 1 and the beginning of May – an 85 percent drop.

Similar changes were implemented in select counties in Georgia and by the end of the first three months, the number of adults receiving benefits in three participating counties dropped 58 percent, according to the Georgia Public Policy Foundation.

[BDKJMU]

"Trump administration weighs expanding the expedited deportation powers of DHS

.....The Trump administration is weighing a new policy to dramatically expand the Department of Homeland Security’s powers to expedite the deportations of some illegal immigrants.

Since 2004, the agency has been authorized to bypass immigration courts only for immigrants who had been living in the country illegally for less than two weeks and were apprehended within 100 miles of the border.

Under the proposal, the agency would be empowered to seek the expedited removal of illegal immigrants apprehended anywhere in the United States who cannot prove they have lived in the country continuously for more than 90 days, according to a 13-page internal agency memo obtained by The Washington Post.....

....In 1996, Congress authorized the use of expedited deportations for illegal immigrants apprehended anywhere in the country who could not prove they had been physically present in the country two years before their apprehension. The powers were used almost exclusively at the border, however, and in 2004 the George W. Bush administration issued guidelines stipulating that the expedited removals could be used for those apprehended within 100 miles of the border who had lived in the country fewer than 14 days......

.....In a pair of immigration executive orders signed in January, Trump sought to expand the use of expedited deportations, as one of several strategies to crack down on illegal immigration. Trump also has called for an additional 10,000 immigration agents and 5,000 border agents, penalties for sanctuary jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with immigration agents, a “big, beautiful” wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and dozens of new immigration judges to slash the immigration court’s backlog of roughly 600,000 cases....

...In May, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it was arresting more than 400 immigrants a day. In the president’s first three months in office, ICE arrested 41,318 immigrants, up 37.6 percent over the same period last year. Most had criminal records, but the largest increase was among immigrants with no records at all.

The internal DHS memo states that the expanded authority for expedited removals “will enhance national security and public safety” by alleviating the “historic backlogs” at the nation’s immigration courts that have led to delays in hearings for more than two years. At the start of this year, there were more than 534,000 removal cases pending in immigration courts, according to the memo.

That is compared with a total of 168,000 cases in 2004, when the Bush-era guidelines were implemented. President Barack Obama’s administration maintained those guidelines...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/na ... 27d327e67a

If Congress has already authorized 2 years, should go ahead and make it 2 years..